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‘Shadow was amazed to hear his owner refer to the toilet as the big white phone’

Installation:  8th-11th March

Performance: 10th March, 1pm

The show is curated by Rose Lejeune

Cartel Gallery – Black Container Space situated in the Courtyard of The Old Police Station
114 – 116 Amersham Vale
London, SE14 6LG
Tube: New Cross (East London Overground)
Buses: 188, 47, 59

Holly Pester will be showing a sound installation at the Cartel Gallery  between 7th-11th of March, with a performance on Saturday 10th, 1pm. The work, ‘Shadow was amazed to hear his owner refer to the toilet as the big white phone’, will explore communication failure and humble broadcasts.

A book launch and performance night at the Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London.

Saturday 15th October, 7pm

Featuring collaboration works from Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe; Patrick Coyle & Holly Pester; Sam Riviere & Jack Underwood; Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne; James Wilkes & Ghazal Mosadeq; Iily Critchley & Tamarin Norwood; Sean Bonney & Jeff Hilson; Marcus Slease & Tim Atkins. With an introduction by Steven Fowler.

9pm, Sunday 16th October, at the Bluecoat, tickets £5

Part of Mercy’s Overlap programme exploring shared territory across music/writing/performance, this event features a premiere of a new work by former Poet in Residence at the Bluecoat, Nathan Jones with Tom Rea Smith, plus Tuvian throat singer Soriah, Holly Pester colluding in the uncanny valley, Mark Leahy operating between digital and analogue to generate song lyrics and looping rhythmic texts, and Emma Bennett talking like a bird talking about a bird.

More info here

The Text Festival Sound Archive Meets Objects from the Bury Museum
Art Installation, Text Festival 2011
Opens 30th April
Bury Art Gallery, Museum and Archive, Bury, Lanc.



Audio works, recorded poetry and sound documents from the Text Festival archive and Bury Gallery collection are re-sited with objects from the museum stores. The combined bodies are presented as a collection to evoke ideas around stored voices, sound transmission and encounters with archives.

Featuring Caroline Bergvall and Ciarán Maher, Carolyn Thompson, Nick Thurston, Phil Davenport, Ron Silliman and Robert Grenier.

VLAK Journal London Launch

VLAK 1 will be launched in London at Birkbeck College, 32 Tavistock Square, on the 29th of October, from 6pm, featuring readings by Allen Fisher, Caroline Bergvall, Sean Bonney, Holly Pester, Carol Watts & Louis Armand.

“VLAK is an international curatorial project with a broad focus on contemporary poetics, art, film, philosophy, music, science, design, politics, performance, ecology, and new media.
Our global-local environment is defined by intersections, hybrids, transversals: realities that are contested, interactual and always in the process of taking new forms.“

feat.
James Wilkes and Holly Pester
A new performance of poetic texts exploring the radio voice, which hovers between the paranoia of panic broadcasts, secret codes and the end of the world, and the euphoria of communion across vast distances. Vulnerable to dispersal in static and hiss, to detuning and disaster, this voice from the machine is a marker of human contact, a resonating chamber. In association with Penned in the Margins.
with
a MOVES festival selection: Hidden Words
New short films. Take a journey through tales, diaries, poems, memories and dissertations where words form only part of the story.

An ambitious two-day poetry event taking place in London during Frieze Art Fair week and featuring unique performances from leading poets, writers, artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians.

The Poetry Marathon will include contributions from Vito Acconci, Etel Adnan, Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag, Caroline Bergvall, Kenneth G. Bostock with Pablo León de la Barra and Cibelle, Boulevard Magenta/Enrique Juncosa, Stuart Brisley, Eleanor Bron, Nathan Cash Davidson, Keren Cytter with Andrew Kerton, Charlie Dark, Tacita Dean, Jimmie Durham, Dominic Eichler, Tracey Emin, Brian Eno, Mark van Eyck, James Fenton, Olivier Garbay, Gilbert & George, John Giorno, Édouard Glissant, Kenneth Goldsmith, Eugen Gomringer, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Alasdair Gray, Tim Griffin, Richard Hell, Geoffrey Hill, Sue Hubbard (presented by Susan Hiller), Karl Holmqvist, Michael Horovitz, Ranjit Hoskote, Grace Jones, Scott King with George Shaw, August Kleinzahler, Nick Laird, Sean Landers, Monika Lichtenfeld, Liliane Lijn, Sara MacKillop, Tom McCarthy with Henry Blofeld, Jonas Mekas with Edward Eke, Maria Mirabal, Eileen Myles, Daljit Nagra, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Philippe Parreno, Don Paterson, Holly Pester, Olivia Plender with Craig Burnett, Jeremy Reed with Itchy Ear, David Robilliard read by the Robilliards (Leo D. Burley and Rose Turner), Gerhard Rühm, Barry Schwabsky, Nancy Spero, Mladen Stilinović, The Bow-Wow Shop/Michael Glover, UbuWeb, Agnès Varda, Franz West, Saul Williams and Cerith Wyn Evans.